Junior Minister calls for end to poultry row

INTERVENTION by the Department of Agriculture and Food or the EU in fixing prices paid to poultry farmers has been ruled out by the Government.

There is a free market in the sale of poultry, explained Michael Ahern, Junior Minister with special responsibility for trade and commerce.

He was commenting in a Senate debate on the price dispute between chicken farmers and Castlemahon Poultry Products in West Limerick.